Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-02-04
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.


snow-Storm. a few days ago.
During 1856 the Northern Pacific
Railroad moved from Washington
Territory $3.50 beef cattle, 1910 NUT
ton sheep and $50 horses
J. VI. Hays, for four years Railway
Postal Clerk on the Tacoma and Port
land route, has resigned his rositinn
| to take charge OF Catlln Bros. store
At Frccport.
1t is the intention OF the Mackcy
| telegraph company to put line down
the ChehaliS valley H. soon as they
can get the lines now in course of con
struction completed.
Robert Hency, we'll known on the
Skagit, but resident of the Stllla-
guamish river, was killed last Satur-
day night 10y land slide, which de
molished his house while he wcs asleep
in bed.
AT Fort Spokane on January s. Pri-
vatc Church, of Go. X, was killed. He
was hauling wood on sled, and falling
!
able distance under one of the runners.
His parents reside near Des Moincs,
Iowa
The lumber trade of the Pacific
northwest is increasing so rapidly that
the railroad companies find 1t difficult
to furnish cars sufficient to supply the
demands of shippers. Orders are re-
ceived from all sections of the Union,
and prices are good.
John Hemenover, well known in
Seattle and Whatcom, died ut Shclton's
Point Saturday morning, of heart dis
ease, from which he has been suffering
for long time. Monday the steam
er Messenger carried the remains anda
large number of the friends of the de-
ceased over to Oakland, Mason county,
where the funeral was held
a gentleman Just from Laconner
says that prohibition in that thriving
town, is II farce, the aloon-kcepcrs
making no prctcncc whatever of dis
guising their business. 1t is said that
there are more saloons and more
whisky is drank than under the license
system. Anyone could see that this
would he the result under the present
law.
Thomas Wright, an old respected
farmer in the Chimacum valley, WAS
found dead lately, reclining in IL char
before the stove in his house The
deceased was Il native of England, a
years of age, and Il shoemaker hy
trade, and was entirely alone at the
time of his death. He was unmarried
and leaves no relatives in this country
SO far as is known.
Oscar Owen, 4 farmer living near the
McAllistcr coal-minc, in King county.
committed suicide Saturday night
by shooting the top of his head
Off He was ~ years of age, and had
Il brother ut Spirit Lake. Iowa, another
at Ogden, Utah, and sister in Fair
fax, Georgia. He had lived the life OF
II hermit seven years on his claim.
and Of late had grown morose and
sullcn, probably from his isolation.
The last statement of the Puget
Sound cooperative colony shows sub
scriptions OF 2,l0l shares oi stock, rep
, rcsen.ing SIS persons and I39 lots in
gelos. 1t has been decided that the
first trustees of the colony will TX
: elected by popular suffrage. not on the
stock basis. If promises are kept, it il
expected to have at least 81 200 of the
subscribed $1,000 this month. which
will be Immediately invested in land.
Andrew J. Leonard, convicted ut
Vancouver year ago of manslaughter
: and sentenced to IL years at the Terri
tOrial Penitentiary, was shot and killed
Tuesday at Scatco while attempting to
, escape. On his first trial at kalama
he was convicted OF the murder OF
4 Ambrose Patton near Freeport, and
+, was sentenced to death. He was
=, granted Il new trial and Il charge OF
venue to Vancouver and escaped with
Is years sentence But he finally
: paid the penalty.
: The bark Diana, which left Port
0 Gamble, w. T., lumber laden, for sgd
t ney, y. $. W., last July, and which
,, had been for some time given up rs
lost and officially entered on the mari
time registers as missing, has been
, heard from. BY advices lately re-
ccivcd from Sydney, it is learned that
the vessel was wrecked on n reef in lat
: itude ) deg. 40 min south, longitude
: 1875 deg. Sc min. west, on the 1ltl
: day of August. The crew escaped.
$ The Northern Pacific land depart
ment, says the Portland Neus, has re
:. ceived a sample of good iron ore from
Snoqualmie prairie. The deposite i,
$ very large The Lake Shore Railroad
: backed by Eastern capitalists, vii
e build line from Seattle to thcs,
n mines, going over the Cascade noun
tains through the Snoqualmic pass
which the Northern Pacific previously
intended to Use to get to Puget Sound
An Englishman named Kirk propose.
to build iron works on these mines ant
e give employment to several thousand
1 men.
a 1t is said that there is great danger
II tIltt I'LL WI n at tlit Will HIVE u
stop, at least Nelson Benefits portion
of it. The wood for the tunnel en-
gincs was hauled as it was needed ans
t no provision was made for a lrayS
/ snow. The same is true in the matter
of feed for the horses and now Bennett
is making an effort, which will pro
r badly be fruitless, to get his stock ou
to some feeding station. Unless an
= unexpected Chinook" turns up the
t tunnel work will necessarily come to &
1 stand still, and band of 20 or 81
D, horses be lost by starvation.
. The Dalles San says: ave learr
q, from a private, though perfectly trust
\ worthy source, that the surveyors O
the Northern Pacific Railroad will tax,
the field as early as possible in tn,
spring for the purpose of running .
6 line down the Columbia river on tn,
. Washington Territory side, from Wal